Surfing the internet last night I ran across Why Minds Are Not Like Computers, a very interesting 2009 article by Ari N. Schulman in The New Atlantis. Schulman describes the way computers work by running algorithms, and he explores the question of whether the human mind can be reduced to similar computational terms. Of course, most materialists are philosophically committed to a positive answer to that question, and Schulman quotes Rodney Brooks from his 2002 book Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us,  where Brooks asserts that “the body, this mass of biomolecules, is a machine that acts according to a set of specifiable rules,” and hence that “we, all of us, overanthropomorphize humans, who are after all mere machines.” Has Read More ›

I’ve publicly said, I’m generally ambivalent to negative on teaching ID and creation in the public schools. However, I am for teaching good science in the public schools. Here is a video that does just that. http://programmingoflife.com/watch-the-video The video has been for sale at Amazon, but it can be watched from the website, now.

I watched this amazing video. What is amazing about it, is that I think that they are trying to make a point against ID-based theories of biology, but it does no such thing. Note that the first part of the video focuses on the definition of evolution. Is there anyone on the planet who disagrees with evolution as they have defined it? They say that evolution is the study of the change of gene frequencies over time. Who doesn’t disagree with that? This is ridiculous, because there is no one at all who disagrees. I find it amazing that the people who obviously spent a lot of time putting this video together didn’t manage to grasp the concept that the Read More ›

According to evolutionists the gorilla split off from the human-chimp lineage 10 million years ago, and then the chimp and human split from each other 6 million years ago. But then a funny thing happened. Remember all those unique human hearing genes that evolutionists said must have undergone “accelerated” evolution? The story was that these hearing genes rapidly evolved because of human language.  Read more

Here is a recent interview from Bob Enyart’s Real Science Friday show, talking about mutations being generated by controlled cellular systems rather than only being generated haphazardly. It also talks about materialism in the larger sense, and why non-materialists have a tough time following design arguments. Listen to the Interview Here

Who in their right mind would be a Darwinist in science today – if they had a free choice – in the face of lateral gene transfer and epigenetics? In “First Things: From Part of the Solution to Part of the Problem,” Barry Arrington tells a familiar story: How media – First Things is his example – start out opposing destructive cultural trends, and end up capitulating to them. How else can one explain the suggestion that Darwinism is compatible with Christianity, fronted today in First Things? Not only isn’t Darwinism compatible with traditional Christianity but no one who really understood it ever supposed that it was. As I have often pointed out here, the Catholic journalists of a century Read More ›

Evolution’s “just-add-water” view of life has led to a massive underestimation of life. Evolutionists expect simplicity but biology is full of complexities. Bruce Alberts, one of James Watson’s co authors of Molecular Biology of the Cell, once admitted:  Read more

The cell synthesizes proteins by first storing an astronomically unlikely sequence of nucleotides in the DNA gene which codes for the protein. Like a sentence from a Shakespeare play, the nucleotide sequence produces a beautiful result. The first step is to unwind, open, read and copy the gene in a process known as transcriptionwhich requires a small army of proteins. The copy, or transcript, is called messenger RNA and after some editing it is passed to the ribosome where the genetic code is used to construct the protein, one amino acid at a time, based on the messenger RNA nucleotide sequence. This process is known as translation. Next the newly synthesized train of amino acids neatly folds into a protein, often with Read More ›